Top 10 Quotes for Thinking, Fast & Slow – I promises Never Forget

Top 10 Quotes for Thinking, Fast & Slow – I promises Never Forget

1. “A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
2. “Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it”
3. “Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”
4. “The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.”
5. “Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.”
6. “The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.”
7. “If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.”
8. “I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing, and I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will wilt in the face of repeated experiences of multiple small failures and rare successes, the fate of most researchers.”
9. “A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical
   exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the
   same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course
   of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of
   skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.”
10. “Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.”